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/ 23 September 2003
Opposition parties have by and large criticised the latest edition of the police’s crime statistics, saying they were old, drew the wrong conclusions and lacked credibility. Democratic Alliance chief whip and safety spokesperson Douglas Gibson described the figures as old and outdated.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20872">We’re winning the crime war, say police</a>
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/ 22 September 2003
The police has made great strides in reducing serious crime levels, although certain categories of crime have increased, says National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Since 1994, murder has now dropped by 29,5% and there is a decrease in high profile cases of aggravated robbery.
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/ 17 September 2003
I was chatting to Oom Krisjan Lemmer in the Dorstbult Bar the other day. ”Subsistence farming? Jy trek my been, man!” he exclaimed. ”It will take our farming backwards. ”Modern boerdery is about the market, including exports. It needs capital and skills. Only plaas-yuppies can win in this business.”
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/ 16 September 2003
The first relief payments are soon to be disbursed out of the Asbestos Relief Trust to five mesothelioma sufferers, claimant representative Reza Williams confirmed on Tuesday.
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/ 16 September 2003
Struggle leaders — including Nelson Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki — on Monday called on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) at its eighth national congress to ensure that the African National Congress won the third democratic elections next year.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20533">Cosatu delegate found dead</a>
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/ 15 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki on Monday lashed out at opponents of the tripartite alliance, saying those who seek to cause division and weaken the organisation were dreaming.
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/ 14 September 2003
The Sealand Express, which ran aground in Table Bay during a storm last month, is free at last.
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/ 10 September 2003
While the Department of Health said a survey released on Tuesday showed that South Africa’s HIV infection rate was slowing, the Treatment Action Campaign and the Democratic Alliance said the findings had not been properly interpreted.
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/ 9 September 2003
An urgent bid by the SABC for access to the King inquiry into rugby’s race row was rejected in the Cape High Court on Monday. The SABC had asked the court to order the South African Rugby Football Union to instruct former judge Edwin King to allow it to broadcast the hearings.
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/ 5 September 2003
Mad Bad Bob Mugabe often says that people opposing him are not patriots. But Oom Krisjan would like to remind troubled Zimbabweans of what the author Edward Abbey once said: ”A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.”
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/ 3 September 2003
There were 276 022 South Africans ”on the run” from the police at the end of April this year, according to figures provided by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
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/ 3 September 2003
A novel quid pro quo deal, involving the state taking over farm capital costs in exchange for land for emerging farmers, was presented to President Thabo Mbeki during his Western Cape imbizo tour. The deal could secure about 1 400 jobs and create 600 new jobs and 800 seasonal jobs.
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/ 1 September 2003
The government’s claim that South Africa was not a crime capital and compared favourably with the rest of the world is refuted by United States crime figures, says official opposition chief whip Douglas Gibson.
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/ 1 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki faced some difficult questions at the final meeting of a three-day Western Cape imbizo held in Worcester — including why ANC members should vote for the ANC-NNP coalition and whether people living with HIV/Aids could receive a special grant.
The debate about nuclear power has escalated with the approach of the final deadline on Monday for appeals against Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa’s approval of a pebble bed modular reactor in the Western Cape.
Like a slumbering giant waking up to its potential, the North West province is aggressively marketing itself as a premier tourist destination for jaded domestic travellers and as a prime location for overseas tourists.
Western Cape divers will be the main beneficiaries of the new 10-year perlemoen harvesting rights that places a moratorium on quotas for recreational divers and eliminates larger fishing companies from competing for the rapidly dwindling mollusc.
The pumping of fuel from the Sealand Express, which ran aground earlier this week in the Cape, is going well, the joint operations committee set up to deal with the stranding has announced.
The African National Congress overturned a huge Democratic Alliance majority in a municipal ward in Uitenhage on Wednesday, winning a by-election by 248 votes and 48% of the vote.
Whoever wins in the bid for the New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) assets, consolidation of the media sector looks imminent, writes <i>Media Weekly</i>’s Kevin Bloom.
Cape Town began mopping up on Tuesday in the wake of a storm that brought snow, gale force winds and driving rain, and sent temperatures plunging.
Finally, the government has agreed to roll out an anti-retroviral drug programme, which Nicoli Nattrass believes should be implemented immediately, while Peter Barron cautions against the rush.
The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has declined to prosecute cigarette manufacturers British American Tobacco (BAT) over its sponsorship of a smoking venue at a African National Congress conference.
The director of a play which aroused the ire of animal lovers when a chicken was slaughtered on stage two weeks ago says he does not regret the killing.
The Cape Town Regional Court on Friday refused to order the withdrawal of corruption charges against New Labour Party leader Peter Marais and former deputy social development minister David Malatsi.
If South Africa does not implement a large scale Aids treatment plan soon, five million South Africans will die from Aids in the next eight to 10 years.
In some parts of South Africa half of all pregnant women are infected with HIV, the first South African Aids conference heard in Durban on Monday.
The South African government has confirmed that fundamental changes have been made to liquor legislation — stopping in its tracks a form of the legislation which would have curtailed distribution and manufacturing by the same players.
A Western Cape Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) official who met leaders of the Zimbabwean trade union movement in the Cape Town on Friday says President Robert Mugabe’s time as head of his state should end.
In a country long-sickened by the level of sexual violence, South African teachers have been encouraged to provide students with skills to cope with the dual threat of gender-based violence and HIV/Aids.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Thursday called on other opposition parties to join the DA in a ”coalition for change” in South Africa, ahead of next year’s general election.